Cognitive interference avoidance in 4th generation GPS

Abstract

GPS systems have revolutionized the way people and social networks in society interact. As GPS becomes more ubiquitous in road transportation, energy, or autonomous delivery drones, there is increasing opportunity for adversaries and malicious attackers to exploit GPS infrastructure so as to hijack or damage position-sensitive systems. We propose the development of a precise positioning system that can be implemented in terrestrial metropolitan networks that is also capable of interference avoidance, hi-jack prevention, and operational in GPS denied environments. The significant contribution of this work is the development of cognitive GPS system that utilizes a novel anti-jamming algorithm to dynamically allocate signal power so as to avoid interference. We also propose a resource elements encryption algorithm to prevent hi-jacking and GPS spoofing.